=== modified file 'phatch/core/config.py'
--- phatch/core/config.py	2008-04-05 21:40:10 +0000
+++ phatch/core/config.py	2008-12-05 10:15:40 +0000
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
     locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
     #get default canonical if necessary
     if canonical == 'default':
-        canonical  = locale.getdefaultlocale()[0]#canonical
+        canonical  = locale.getdefaultlocale(envvars=('LC_ALL', 'LANG'))[0] #canonical
         if canonical is None:
             #for mac
             canonical   = 'en'